Modern English biography

Nov. 1874 p._ 74; _Graphic_, _xi_ 68 (1875), _portrait_. JARMAN, FRANCES ELEANOR (eld. child of John Jarman of York, actor). _b._ Hull, Feb. 1803; made her first appearance at Bath 23 May 1815 as Edward a child in Mrs. Inchbald’s Every one has his fault; acted at Bath 1815–22, in Ireland 1824–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1827 as Juliet; played Imogen 10 May 1827 her best tragic part; made a great success as Amadis in Dimond’s Nymph of the Grotto 15 Jany. 1829; acted in Scotland 1829–34, in America and Canada 1834–7, at Drury Lane 1837–8, in Dublin 1843; played Paulina in The Winter’s Tale at Princess’s theatre, London, Oct. 1855; acted with Charles Dickens in Wilkie Collins’ drama The Frozen Deep, at Manchester 1857; retired about 1857–8; played at Lyceum theatre, London 23 Dec. 1865. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1834 Thomas Luke Ternan, actor and author who _d._ 17 Oct. 1846 aged 47). _d._ The Lawn, Oxford 30 Oct. 1873. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_, _part 17_ (1851), _portrait_; _Actors by daylight_, _i_ 121 (1838), _portrait_; _J. N. Ireland’s New York stage_, _ii_ 107 (1867). JARMAN, HENRY. _b._ 1819; solicitor in London 1847 to death; author of New practice of the court of chancery 1853, 3 ed. 1854; Forms of bills of costs in chancery 1857; Index to the bankruptcy act 1869; Index to the old and new Testaments 1883. _d._ 6 Sandmere road, Clapham, Surrey 10 Jany. 1889. JARMAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1800; clerk in office of his uncle a solicitor at Bristol; barrister M.T. 10 Feb. 1826; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery to death; edited J. J. Powell’s An essay on devises 3rd ed. 2 vols. 1827, wrote all the 2nd vol. himself; W. M. Bythwood’s A selection of precedents forming a system of conveyancing 1827, vols, 4 to 10 were compiled by T. Jarman, 2 ed. 11 vols. 1829–36; author of A treatise on wills 2 vols. 1844, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1881; author with W. Hayes of Concise forms of wills with practical notes 1835, 9 ed. 1883. _d._ Hadley, Middlesex 26 Feb. 1860. _A brief memorial of the late Thomas Jarman, Esq. of Lincoln’s Inn._ _By Rev. Professor Charlton_, _privately printed_; _Law mag. and law review_, _x_ 251–62 (1861); _Solicitors’ Journal_, _iv_ 351–3 (1860). JARMAN, THOMAS. Lived at Clipston, Northamptonshire; prolific composer of anthems and psalm tunes, some of which were very popular about 1840; published Devotional melodist 1828; Sacred music. The Northamptonshire harmony 1835; The church and chapel melodist 1850. _d._ Jany. 1862. JARRETT, _Rev. Thomas_. _b._ 1805; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., 34 wrangler 1827; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; fellow of his college 1828–32, classical and Hebrew lecturer to 1832; professor of Arabic at Camb. 1831–54; R. of Trunch, Norfolk 4 Feb. 1832 to death; regius professor of Hebrew at Camb., and canon of Ely, Feb. 1854 to death; lectured on Sanskrit 20 years; knew 20 languages; devised a system for transliterating oriental languages into the Roman character; author of An Essay on algebraic development. Cambridge 1831; A new lexicon of the Hebrew language, Part i. Hebrew and English, Part ii. English and Hebrew 1848; A new way of marking the sounds of English words without change of spelling 1858; The Hebrew text of the old covenant, printed in a modified Roman alphabet 1882. _d._ Trunch rectory 7 March 1882. _The Biograph_, _iv_ 231–33 (1880). JARROLD, Thomas. _b._ Manningtree, Essex 1 Dec. 1770; ed. at univ. of Edin.; M.D. Glasgow 1802; physician at Stockport, Cheshire, then at Manchester; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc.; author of Essays in answer to professor Malthus’ work on population. Stockport 1806; Anthropologia or dissertations on the form and colour of man 1808; An enquiry into the cause of the curvature of the spine 1823. _d._ Greenhill st. Greenheys, Manchester 24 June 1853. _J. P. Earwaker’s Local Gleanings_ (1876) 137, 143. JARVIS, SIR LEWIS WHINCOP (only son of Lewis Weston Jarvis of Lynn, solicitor). _b._ 1816; articled to his father; solicitor at Lynn 1840 to death; head of bank of Jarvis and Jarvis at Lynn to death; mayor of Lynn 1860, 61 and 62; steward of the Prince of Wales’s manors in Norfolk; knighted at Osborne 15 Jany. 1878. _d._ Middleton Towers, Lynn, Norfolk 2 Nov. 1888. JARVIS, SIR SAMUEL RAYMOND (son of Samuel Jarvis of Fair Oak house, Hants.) _b._ about 1790; ensign 18 foot 12 April 1806; lieut. 25 foot 1807 to 1816 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 life guards 25 April 1817 to 25 Jany. 1823 when placed on h.p.; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 Sep. 1834; sheriff of Hants. 1834; lieut. col. in the army 11 Nov. 1851; captain 3 West India regiment 6 March 1863 but sold out same day. _d._ Cove cottage, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 5 Dec. 1868. JARVIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1834; organist; published a set of Six trios for male voices to the words of old nursery ditties; Merrily oh. Song, words by T. Moore 1877; The Inchcape bell. Scena 1879; Peter Piper. Canon for three voices 1879; Old England on the lee. Song 1880; Pensées Musicales. A set of pieces for the piano 1880. _d._ 2 Thornford ter. Lewisham, Kent 27 Nov. 1880. JAVASU, CARABOO, Princess of, a name taken by Mary Willcocks (dau. of Thomas Willcocks a cobbler at Witheridge, North Devon). _b._ Witheridge 11 Nov. 1792; in service at Exeter 1810, then became a wandering mendicant; assumed male attire and was a footman in a family 1813; acquired the art of altering her features so that no one knew her; lost in the snow and buried during a night near Witheridge; in Magdalen hospital, London, Feb.-July 1813. (_m._ 1816 John Edward Francis Baker or Bakerstendt, who soon ran away from her, placed her child in the Foundling hospital, London, where it died Sep. 1816); camped with gipsies near Exeter and learnt some of their skill; pretended to be a Frenchwoman, then a Spaniard; announced herself to be Caraboo princess of Javasu, and at Bath at the Pack Horse inn held a reception when the ladies knelt before her; invented written characters for the Javasu language; went to America 1817, returned 1824; exhibited herself in New Bond st. London 1824; living under Pyle Hill, Bedminster, Bristol as a seller of leeches Dec. 1849. _d._ Bristol, Dec. 1864. _Full particulars of the life of Caraboo, alias Mary Baker. Bristol_ (1817); _Narrative of an imposition by Mary Willcocks alias Baker, alias Bakerstendt alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu. Bristol_ (1817) _with 2 portraits_; _Temple Bar_, _June 1866 pp._ 420–2; _Whately’s Miscellaneous Remains_ (1864) 249–52; _Hone’s Everyday book_, _ii_ 1631–4 (1838), 2 _portraits_. JAY, JOHN. Carpenter at 121 Bunhill Row, London 1835–8, builder at 65 London Wall 1838–49, contractor at 15 & 16 Macclesfield st. City road 1848–62, at 9 Euston road 1866–73; constructed the Great Northern railway station 1852, one of the three contractors for Metropolitan railway from Paddington to Farringdon st. 1860–2; completed the houses of parliament, including the central clock and Victoria towers; built fortifications for government, and the casemated barracks at Portland. _d._ Ashford house, Hornsey 28 Dec. 1872. JAY, REV. WILLIAM (son of a stonecutter and mason). _b._ Tisbury, Wilts. 8 May 1769; a working mason; ed. by rev. Cornelius Winter at Marlborough to 1788; as ‘Young Jay the boy preacher’ officiated in Surrey chapel, London 1788; minister Christian Malford, Wilts. and at Hope chapel, Hotwells, Clifton; pastor of Argyle Independent chapel, Bath 30 Jany. 1791, resigned 30 Jany. 1853, voted an annuity of £200; called the Prince of Preachers; author of The mutual duties of husbands and wives 1801; Morning exercises in the closet 2 vols. 1829, 5 ed. 1866; Evening exercises for the closet 2 vols. 1831, several editions; Sermons preached at Cambridge 1837. _d._ 4 Percy place, Bath 27 Dec. 1853. _European Mag. Jany. 1819 pp._ 5–8, _portrait_; _Autobiography of W. Jay. Ed. by G. Redford and J. A. James_ (1854), _portrait_; _Recollections of W. Jay by his son Cyrus Jay_ (1859), 3 _portraits_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ 107–8 (1848), _portrait_. JAY, WILLIAM CHICKALL. _b._ Suffolk 1811; came to London as a boy and entered a millinery establishment; opened a shawl warehouse at 217 Regent st. London 1841 and was proprietor of a mourning warehouse at 247 and 249 Regent st. 1842–68, it was turned into a limited company 1868; member of hon. artillery co. 1835 and capt. of the troop of horse artillery 1860–9; member of Victoria rifles 1850; a successful farmer at Tolesbury, Essex. _d._ 27 April 1888, personalty sworn over £101,000. _Henry Mayhew’s Shops of London_, _ii_ 217–20 (1865); _Warehouseman and Draper’s trade journal 4 Sep. 1886 pp._ 735–6, _portrait_, _5 May 1888 p._ 446. JEANS, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ Portsea 1804; articled to a solicitor; had charge of chronometers in observatory, Portsmouth dockyard 1824; assist. master R. naval coll. Portsmouth, college abolished 1837; pensioner of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1837–8; mathematical master in re-established Naval coll. Portsmouth 1839–66; mathematical master R. military acad. Woolwich for some time; examiner in nautical astronomy for Trinity board; built and endowed a chapel at Langstone near Havant; F.R.A.S. 13 March 1840; author of Plane and spherical trigonometry. Portsea 2 parts 1842–7, 6 ed. of Part i. 1873; Problems in astronomy, surveying and navigation 1849; The theory of nautical astronomy and navigation 1853; Handbook of the stars, 4 ed. 1888. _d._ Langstone house 23 March 1881. _Monthly notices R. Astronom. Soc. xlii_ 145–6 (1882). JEBB, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Richard Jebb 1766–1834, justice of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). _b._ Dublin 1805; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829, B.D. and D.D. 1860; R. of Dunurlin, co. Kerry 1831–32; preb. of Limerick cath. 1832–43; R. of Peterstow, Herefordshire 1843 to death; proctor diocese of Hereford 1857 and 1868–74; preb. of Hereford cath. 1858–70, prælector 1863–70, canon res. 1870 to death, and chancellor 1878 to death; one of revisers of the Old Testament for a short time; author of The divine economy of the church 1840; A literal translation of the book of Psalms 2 vols. 1846; The present state of the church, in six letters 2 ed.